Did Recovered Extra-Terrestrial Technology
Make Possible This Century's Greatest Inventions

by Jack Landman

An incredible claim is made, quite seriously, by a career military intelligence
officer whose record of service is impeccable and impressive. The claim
is this: the wreckage and artifacts of a recovered alien spacecraft, in
1947, near Roswell, New Mexico, has seeded development of many late century
technologies, including, fiber optics, night vision viewing, minituarized
silicon circuits, composite ceramic materials, laser development/particle
beam (SDI), stealth aircraft and unusually strong Kevlar type fabrics.

The claimant is Colonel Philip J. Corso. He died in 1998, but not before
publishing, The Day After Roswell, in 1997. He served in World War II, the
Korean War, and in the mid 50's, in the White House at the National Security
Council. In 1961, he went to work in the Pentagon as Chief of the Foreign
Technology Desk, Research and Development, serving directly under, and answering
only to General Arthur Trudeau, a highly decorated military hero.

Col. Corso was not at Roswell in 1947. Instead he was stationed at Fort
Riley, Kansas, where, he says, he briefly saw a dead alien body, preserved
in formaldehyde in its shipping container on its way from Roswell to Wright
Field, Ohio. This particular chance event is an almost unbelievable, (but
not quite), coincidence. Corso does not refer to the creature as an "alien",
but as an "extra-terrestrial biological entity" (EBE), which,
he says, became the top secret classified designation in the aftermath of
the Roswell recovery of 1947.

Always the good soldier, he tucked away any thought of that experience
until fourteen years later when General Trudeau chose Col. Corso to be the
army's interface between its secret knowledge and American industry. According
to Corso, between 1947 and 1961, the effort within the minds of the US secret
keepers was to create a successful cover-up. It was not until Gen. Trudeau
became head of the army's most secret weapons development programs that
a system was developed to release extra-terrestrial technological information
to researchers. In fact, the Cold War provided the urgency and cover for
a military that at its highest levels feared the alien threat to our security
much more than that posed by the Russians or Chinese, according to Col.
Corso.

Have we any way of knowing if this true? No. As with all seemingly good
evidence for the existence of alien UFOs, we lack any irrefutable information.
In fact, it is uncanny how the evidence for this overall UFO/alien subject
always comes right up to a point, then fades back. However, I do not believe
this should be taken as supporting the more skeptical viewpoint. Instead,
it speaks more to the high strangeness that characterizes so many aspects
of the subject. In a twisted sort of way it actually boosts the possibility
these things are true.

Still, to be satisfied, and to have our most skeptical friends and associates
share our beliefs in the more bizarre qualities of reality, we must have
a smoking gun, not just a huge body of circumstantial evidence. I suspect
that if the best-documented cases were studied, one of several in particular,
would already contain the proof for which we are looking. Maybe its Roswell
(1947), Washington, D.C. (1952), North Dakota Missile Silo (1967), Teheran
(1976), Bentwaters, England (1981), Belgium (1983), or Mexico (1990s), but
its out there somewhere. The tantalizing suspicion is that if we just had
a Woodward and Bernstein sneaking around the Pentagon for about 6 months,
this thing would break right open.

Another factor is a "law" of the universe, which has probably
been described by others, but until I am made aware of someone else's articulation
of this, I will call it the Landman Tendency: Newly discovered facts always
accelerate our vision of reality toward the greatest strangeness. Said another
way, many new revelations from the fields of science and astronomy tend
to confirm, or at least open to possibility the weirdest explanations for
things. Think of the things quantum studies are telling us these days -
particles may be in two places at one time, teleportation may be possible;
a thing is not what it seems to be but is a set of probabilities. Of course,
I over simplify, but you get my drift.

It is almost old fashioned to cling to the belief that the speed of light
is the limit of velocities. An inter-dimensional understanding of reality
may suggest that many universes exist simultaneously, and the ones other
than our own may have entirely different physical laws. Have you seen the
videos and photos of "rods" and "orbs"? These strange
phenomena may exist at the margins of our current equipment's ability to
capture them. Who knew what a bullet passing through an apple looked like
until Edgerton fine-tuned stroboscopic photography?

And don't be too quick to dismiss crop circles as being the products of
a few hoaxers with string, protractors and cardboard. There is a class of
crop circles appearing around the world, which have very strange characteristics.
Dr. W. C. Levengood at the University of Michigan is studying plant abnormalities
that appear in samples taken from particular crop circles. These suggest
a heretofore-unknown force literally "microwaves" symbolic patterns
into the fields of grain. Seeds from the affected plants may produce "super-growth"
plants, which may someday help us fight world hunger.

So what about The Day After Roswell and Col. Philip J Corso? It cannot
be disputed that he was where he says he was when he says he was there.
He had the top-secret clearances. Some say his book is actually an authorized
attempt by our government to drip out the truth, so that when the ultimate
statement of the UFO/Alien reality is made, more and more of us will have
been prepared. I don't believe that. In fact, what bothers me most about
Corso's claims is that I do not understand what could have motivated this
career soldier and secret keeper to spill the beans toward the end of his
life. That is the big "red flag" for me in this story. Though
that piece of strangeness troubles me, it does not change the fact that
this is one of the most compelling tales of its kind ever produced. I urge
my most skeptical friends to check this one out, and beware the Landman
Tendency!